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AI Privacy, Data Protection & IP training

Seven microlessons, each under 5 minutes, on keeping personal data, confidential information and IP safe when you use AI, with a certificate of completion.

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What the AI Privacy, Data Protection & IP course covers

This course covers privacy, data protection and intellectual property in the age of AI in seven microlessons, each under 5 minutes. It's built for anyone who uses AI tools at work, and covers why prompts are data, sensitive information and approved tools, what never to share, the ICO's AI guidance, data protection principles, IP risk and everyday habits that keep data safe.

Learning outcomes

What your people will be able to do

  • Identify personal, special category and confidential data before using AI tools
  • Apply data minimization, anonymization and permission controls when using generative AI
  • Check AI providers' practices and stick to approved tools
  • Recognize when a risk assessment or DPIA is needed, and disclose AI use
  • Manage IP risk in what goes into and comes out of AI tools
  • Build everyday habits: pause before pasting, label AI content and report incidents
Course contents

7 microlessons

Each microlesson is a short, TikTok-style video lesson.

1Why AI Changes the Privacy Equation
2Protecting Sensitive Data from Generative AI Tools
3Things You Should Never Share with ChatGPT or Any AI Tool
4What Regulators Expect: The ICO's AI Guidance Hub
5Applying the Principles: ICO Guidance on AI and Data Protection
6Intellectual Property and AI
7Putting it into Practice

  1. Why AI Changes the Privacy Equation: Why every prompt is data that a provider may process and store.
  2. Protecting Sensitive Data from Generative AI Tools: Recognizing sensitive data and sticking to approved AI tools.
  3. Things You Should Never Share with ChatGPT or Any AI Tool: The information that should never go into an AI tool, from personal data to passwords.
  4. What Regulators Expect: The ICO's AI Guidance Hub: What the ICO's AI guidance covers, and how the EU AI Act fits in.
  5. Applying the Principles: ICO Guidance on AI and Data Protection: How data protection principles apply when you use AI.
  6. Intellectual Property and AI: IP risk at three points: what goes in, what comes out and who owns the result.
  7. Putting it into Practice: Everyday habits: pause before pasting, check outputs and label AI content.
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Audience and regulation

Who it's for and the law it covers

Who it's for

  • Everyone who uses AI tools at work
  • Teams that handle personal, special category or confidential data
  • Managers and data protection leads setting rules for AI use

Laws covered

  • UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The data protection principles that apply whenever personal data goes into an AI tool, including special category data.
  • ICO guidance on AI and data protection. The UK regulator's guidance on applying data protection law to AI.
  • EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. The EU's risk-based framework for AI systems, introduced alongside the ICO's guidance.
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Questions about AI Privacy, Data Protection & IP training

How long is the AI Privacy, Data Protection & IP course?

It's made up of 7 microlessons, each under 5 minutes. Learners can finish it in one sitting or spread it over a few days, and 5Mins sends reminders until it is done.

Is there a certificate?

Yes. Learners get a certificate of completion when they finish all 7 microlessons, and the record is stored in 5Mins.

What does the course cover?

Why prompts are data, recognizing sensitive information, approved tools, what never to share with AI, the ICO's AI guidance, data protection principles, intellectual property risk and everyday habits that keep data safe.

Who should take AI Privacy, Data Protection & IP training?

Everyone who uses AI tools at work, especially teams that handle personal or confidential data.

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